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A look inside the fastest supercomputer in Europe

What is now the fastest supercomputer in Europe was recently unveiled at a research institute in Jülich, Germany. The computer, named Jugene, is capable of a massive one trillion computing operations per second.

Here are some facts about the Jugene supercomputer:

  • Based on IBM’s Blue Gene/P architecture.
  • Computing capacity: 1 petaflops/second.
  • That equals the computing power of more than 50,000 PCs.
  • 294,912 processor cores.
  • Processor type: 32-bit PowerPC 450 at 850 MHz.
  • 144 terabytes of RAM.
  • Mounted in 72 racks.
  • Network bandwidth: 5.1 gigabyte/second with a 160 nanosecond latency.
  • Power input: 2.2 megawatts.

    • Wish we could get one of these for Pingdom. Couldn’t cost all that much, could it? ;)